Fiberglass Pool Customization Options
Colors, Lighting, Water Features, Spas & Backyard Upgrades
Customize Your Fiberglass Pool
Design a Backyard Pool That Fits Your Home, Lifestyle & Outdoor Space
Your fiberglass pool is the starting point. Personalize the finished backyard with pool colors, lighting, water features, spas, built-in features, equipment, and outdoor-living upgrades that complement your home and the way you want to use the space..
Pool Colors & Finishes
Explore fiberglass pool colors and finishes that influence the look and water color of your finished pool.
Pool Lighting
Add LED pool lighting to enhance nighttime swimming, highlight the water, and create a more inviting backyard atmosphere after dark.
Sanitization & Water Care
Compare traditional chlorine, salt chlorine systems, UV, ozone, and other water-care options for clean, comfortable pool water.
Water Features
Add movement, sound, and visual interest with bubblers, waterfalls, deck jets, spillovers, and other water features designed around your pool and backyard.
Heating, Cooling & Equipment
Customize water comfort and pool operation with heating, cooling, circulation, filtration, automation, and other equipment options selected for your pool and climate.
Outdoor Living
Complete the backyard with decking, patios, screen enclosures, landscaping, outdoor kitchens, seating areas, and other outdoor-living features planned around the pool.
Fiberglass Pool Colors & Finishes
Choose a Pool Color That Complements Your Backyard Design
Pool color is one of the most visible customization choices homeowners make when selecting a fiberglass pool. The finish influences the appearance of the water and can help the pool complement surrounding patio materials, landscaping, furniture, lighting, and outdoor living spaces.
Rainforest offers fiberglass pool colors ranging from bright, tropical-looking finishes to deeper, more dramatic tones. Because sunlight, pool depth, shade, screen enclosures, and surrounding materials can all influence how a finish appears once the pool is filled, homeowners should consider the entire backyard when choosing a color.
Choosing Your Fiberglass Pool Color
- Water appearance: Different finishes can create bright blue, soft, natural, deep, or more dramatic water tones.
- Backyard style: Consider the home exterior, coping, patio, landscaping, furniture, and overall outdoor design.
- Sunlight & shade: Water color can change throughout the day depending on sunlight, trees, structures, and screen enclosures.
- Long-term appeal: Choose a finish you will enjoy even as landscaping, furniture, or other backyard elements change.
Pool Lighting Options
Extend the Backyard Experience After Dark
Pool lighting can improve nighttime visibility while also changing the atmosphere of the entire backyard. Your local builder can help plan lighting around the pool, steps, ledges, water features, decking, and surrounding outdoor-living areas.
Common Pool Lighting Options
- White LED lighting: Clean, bright illumination for swimming and everyday nighttime use.
- Color-changing LED lighting: Adds different colors and lighting effects for entertaining or changing the mood of the backyard.
- Accent & landscape lighting: Lighting around patios, landscaping, steps, and outdoor-living areas can help tie the entire space together.
- Water-feature lighting: Bubblers, waterfalls, spillovers, and other features can often be illuminated for added nighttime impact.
Sanitization & Water Care
Choose a Water-Care System That Fits Your Pool and Maintenance Preferences
The sanitization system helps keep pool water clean, clear, and comfortable throughout the swimming season. Homeowners can choose from several water-care approaches, including traditional chlorine, salt chlorine generators, UV systems, ozone, and other supplemental technologies.
The right option depends on the pool size, equipment package, climate, maintenance preferences, and recommendations from your independent local builder or pool professional.
Common Pool Sanitization Options
- Traditional chlorine: A widely used and familiar method of maintaining a safe chlorine residual in the pool water.
- Salt chlorine systems: Use dissolved salt and a chlorine generator to continuously produce chlorine, reducing the need to add chlorine manually as often.
- UV systems: Use ultraviolet light as a supplemental treatment to help reduce microorganisms as water passes through the equipment system.
- Ozone systems: Introduce ozone as an additional oxidation method to support water quality alongside the pool’s primary sanitizer.
- Hybrid systems: Some equipment packages combine more than one technology to help manage water quality, chlorine demand, and routine maintenance.
Your Local Builder Can Help You Compare Options
Rainforest manufactures the fiberglass pool shell, while sanitization equipment and water-care systems are selected and installed by your independent local builder or pool professional. They can help you compare equipment choices based on your pool, local conditions, expected use, and preferred maintenance routine.
Pool Water Features
Add Movement, Sound & Visual Interest
Water features can make a fiberglass pool feel more dynamic and connected to the surrounding backyard. Your local builder can help coordinate water features with the pool layout, decking, equipment, lighting, and outdoor-living design.
Popular Pool Water Feature Options
- Waterfalls: Create a strong visual focal point while adding the relaxing sound of moving water.
- Bubblers: Work especially well on tanning ledges and shallow areas to add movement and a playful resort-style effect.
- Deck jets: Send streams of water from the deck into the pool for a clean, modern look.
- Spillovers: Can connect a raised spa or elevated feature area to the pool while creating continuous movement.
- Feature lighting: Waterfalls, bubblers, and other features can often be paired with lighting for added nighttime impact.
Rainforest manufactures the fiberglass pool shell, while water features, plumbing, equipment, placement, and installation are coordinated by your independent local builder or pool professional.
Pool Heating, Cooling & Equipment
Keep Your Pool Comfortable and Easy to Manage
Fiberglass pools can be paired with a variety of equipment options to help manage water temperature, circulation, filtration, and everyday operation. Depending on the climate and how you plan to use the pool, your local builder can help determine which equipment makes the most sense for your backyard.
Common Pool Equipment Options
- Pool heaters & heat pumps: Extend comfortable swimming into cooler weather and help maintain a preferred water temperature.
- Pool cooling: Heat-and-cool systems or dedicated pool chillers can help lower water temperatures during especially hot weather.
- Variable-speed pumps: Allow circulation speeds to be adjusted based on filtration, heating, water features, and other operating needs.
- Filtration systems: Cartridge and other filtration options help remove debris and keep pool water clear.
- Automation & controls: Depending on the equipment package, homeowners may be able to control pumps, temperature, lighting, water features, and other functions from a central system or compatible app.
Your Local Builder Can Design the Equipment Package
Rainforest manufactures the fiberglass pool shell, while heating, cooling, pumps, filtration, automation, and related equipment are selected and installed by your independent local builder or pool professional. The equipment package should be designed around the specific pool model, climate, features, and how you plan to use the pool.
Outdoor Living Around Your Fiberglass Pool
Design the Backyard, Not Just the Pool
A fiberglass pool can become the centerpiece of a much larger outdoor living space. Patios, screen enclosures, landscaping, seating areas, outdoor kitchens, shade structures, and other backyard features can all be planned around the pool to create a space that works for swimming, relaxing, entertaining, and everyday family life.
Outdoor Living Features to Consider
- Patios & decking: Pavers, concrete, stone, and other deck materials help define the pool area and connect it to the home.
- Screen enclosures: Especially popular in Florida, screen enclosures can help create a more comfortable and contained outdoor living environment. →Screen Enclosure Planning Guide
- Outdoor kitchens & entertaining areas: Cooking, dining, and seating spaces can turn the pool area into a true extension of the home.
- Landscaping & privacy: Trees, plantings, privacy screens, and landscape design help soften the pool area and create a more finished backyard.
- Shade & covered spaces: Pergolas, covered patios, umbrellas, and other shade options can make the backyard more comfortable throughout the day.
- Furniture & gathering areas: Loungers, dining areas, fire features, and conversational seating can help create distinct spaces around the pool.